[rti_india] Productivity Analysis of APSIC

Thursday, July 1, 2010

[rti_india] Productivity Analysis of APSIC - 2009 [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from C K Jam included below]

PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS OF APSIC - 2009

The summary is:

CIC CDA: Chief Information Commissioner C D Arha
IC KSR: Information Commissioner K Sudhakar Rao
IC ASR: Information Commissioner Ambatty Subba Rao
IC DR: Information Commissioner Dileep Reddy

1. CIC CDA and IC DR are the most "traveled" in the APSIC and have been traveling for 59 and 40 days respectively during 2009.
2. IC KSR only conducted hearings on 15% of the days he attended office – that is one out of 6 days.
3. The average number of days on which hearings were conducted in APSIC is 22% or about 1 out of 5 days.
4. The average number of days on which hearings were conducted when the IC's did attend office is 1 out of 4 days – ie about 26%
5. The pendancy of cases increased by nearly 95% during 2009 for APIC as a unit. The highest increase for pendancy was in the case of CIC CDA – 120%.
This could have been reduced in case the IC's had heard more number of cases per day or had utilised more days for hearing cases. If the IC's had just heard cases on an additional 25 days during the year, the pendancy would be near zero.
It must be noted here that APSIC has three sets of Holidays during the year – Sankranti (4 days), Summer (4 weeks) and Dussehra (4 days).
6. A healthy trend during the year was that the APSIC started accepting direct Complaints under Sec 18 of the RTI Act – which it did not do previously. The total number of Complaints disposed during 2009 were 73 (48 allowed, 5 rejected and 20 "returned).
7. The disposal rate per hearing day is also very low: only 10.5 cases disposed per day when hearings were actually conducted, for the entire APSIC.
The disposal rate per day on which office was attended by the ICs is a abysmal 2.7 cases per day on an average, for the entire APSIC
8. The average cost per decision of the APSIC (excluding returns) is Rs. 10,075 which is lower than what was last year, because the number of cases heard has gone up substantially.
9. Total No. of Penalties imposed was 13 and the total amount was Rs. 1,41,250.00
If you compare this with the total number of appeals/complaints allowed - 2134 - the figure of only 13 penalties appears abysmally low.
10. 3 disciplinary actions were recommended by the APSIC. But one was withdrawn and one was rejected by the government...therefore effectively only one disciplinary action.